what if there's no escape. ritualised. street. this is deja news live from berlin one hundred years since the end of the first world war the french president and the german chancellor make history with a joint visits to the site where one of the bloodiest conflicts of the twentieth century was officially forced to win and. sometimes. and firing gulfs entire communities in california at least nine people have been

killed and hundreds of thousands of residents have been forced to flee their homes including the u.s. and overseas living here by. the way. i'm christine would go welcome to the program europe mocks the moment hundred years ago when the battlefields fell silent at the end of world war one the leaders of france and germany coming together today in the highly symbolic ceremony president emmanuel mcconnell france and german chancellor angela merkel laid a wreath and unveiled a proc in the forest at the tearing off almost as. the moment highlights the special alliance f.b.i. europe off to decades of reconsideration between the former adversaries into old walls. inside a replica the railway carriage way the armistice was originally signed the two

meters then wrote in the gold book on for membranes they will be the last signatures in that book meanwhile world leaders are gathering in paris for the main ceremonies marking the end of the first world war combination as eleven am on sunday morning the very end of the conflict. let's turn to max hoffman who is in paris for us next a historic occasion and a highly symbolic meeting today between two former enemies who are now of course a strong allies how significant was this event today between the french president across on and german chancellor i'm going to. the official highlight of this commemorative week of course will be on sunday when sixty nine heads of state and government will be here right behind me at the uk to tee off in paris but of course at the heart of all this are two nations france and germany they have been the peacekeepers in the last decades in the european union in europe so to say and also

of course the engine of the european union and that's why that meeting was so important because this was all also the first time between the two since the federal republic of germany has been founded that a german chancellor and the french president went to continue a place that was symbolic before that for hatred was symbolic for humiliation and also for revenge and if you look at that picture between i'm going to back up the german chancellor and french president there and i would like call the medical snuggles up to my call this could be the symbolic moment of this commemorative week . all right max min though a man you're mccracken is hosting some sixty metres at remembrance ceremonies this weekend what can we expect for tomorrow. there you are you can already see all the preparations going on behind me we already saw many dignitaries of course there's a huge police presence here what will you see what will we see at the octopussy off

behind me there will be music there will be speeches including from amount to my call you will have world leaders as diverse as the one from turkey putin from russia from from the united states and of course the europeans that will be here and then you will also have recitals of letters from soldiers that fought in world war one from different nations recited by children i read some of those recitals and they are extremely moving they will also on earth the unknown soldier that is underneath the arctic sea off behind me so i expect the full package here anything you would expect from a commemorative event like that and especially of a hundredth anniversary of an event like ending the what is called the great war here in france all right. and reporting for us in paris. for more now on this i'm joined by french journalist people much law he is the

burden correspondent for the french daily paper hall well mr maher not just in syria so we've talked a lot about michael and the crowd and the strong echoes that it has off to previously it is helmut kohl and. of course because of the world war one and two where of course two very very important conflicts in which france and germany played in each case a key role. there were two communications on the eleventh of november one thousand nine hundred eighteen for a century ago one hundred forty at the same place where. we are today. after the defeat of frogs and these wars in the common memory of france and germany are very important that's why i called mr hall in the eighty's one nine hundred eighty four where shaking hands in there have done in the east part of france and today

that is also. some sort of a review of. a notice story in this is a very long story between france and germany. with these two horrible wars i mean bringing back mr han and call into this conversation these were post-war leaders they lived through a ball or two and so when when they when they talked about european unity the difference for them was really between peace and war two leaders here today france france as many mccrone and germany's angela merkel do you think that they they view it with the with the same lens. i think of course their view is a different one because they didn't they have no experience with with the war with the second world war and with all the tragedy that took place in europe and all over the world i think for a minute mark or history. is a very important topic we have seen that in the last eighteen months.

plays a role in the in the relationship of france for example with his former colonies in africa in order parts of the world and also also in the french german relationship so i think and i think that history and symbols also are very important very important also to communicate and to reach french people because also because the memory of the these wars the great war as we say in france is still today very important in in our now conscious we see that president has engaged really strongly with this anniversary hasn't he of course because the east spend mall this one week. started at the jury in the last weekend in stress burke a very important city a symbol also between france and germany with the german president.

today if there was there was disagreement in competing with uncle americal and some order more as with theories a may for example and i think that was important for him. not only because of his relationship to history because also it was a it was also an occasion to to meet french people in the time which is not which is quite difficult for him because of his lack of popularity and that that was also the goal of the memory and we started on the last weekend all right people met on french cars all correspondent for the french daily paper the thank you very much for coming for us thank. u.s. president donald trump had planned a visit to a military cemetery in france to pay respects to the american soldiers who died fighting in world war one but the white house scrapped the plans due to bad weather

president mccrone had india held an apache cordial meeting with donald trump at the palace this offset u.s. president described french calls for a joint european defense force as quote very insulting on to us up and demanded that europe pay its fair share of nation in california at least eleven people have died and hundreds of thousands have been displaced as wildfires continue to rage in multiple there cations on thursday flames engulfed the town of paris eyes in northern california driven by a strong winds and fed by a parched landscape the blaze destroyed thousands of homes separate fires have forced two hundred thousand people from their homes and thousand oaks and enter a conti on friday the entire city of malibu also has to be evacuated. the malibu home to the rich and famous but it's wealthy residents have been ordered to leave for their own safety as residents took to the highways and fled

a wall of fire swept towards the pacific ocean emergency services are struggling to contain the wildfires more than two hundred thousand people have been evacuated from their homes and on thirty's warn there could be worse ahead. sunday so there's not going to be really. can't tell you there are four potters in our first responders are doing all they can to protect lives or property mubarak. eight hundred kilometers to the north another wildfire is raging flames have already consumed the town of paradise more than six thousand seven hundred homes have been burned here making it the most destructive blaze in california's history nine people died trying to escape and many of those who survived left with nothing. well i was just coming up this is going to be my neighbors and again i didn't relate. to all of that so.

we ought to our as a lost our business in a matter of seconds only thing we got our credit cards and our bank cards we had virtually nothing when we're starting over president trump is blaming california for poor forest management and he's threatened to hold back some federal aid payments right now the residents of california have more pressing concerns. all right and joining us now from los angeles is janice chasen capital and yes hi jason how dangerous on the blazes way you law they're extremely dangerous i'm about twenty miles south of the fire as you can see the smoke line behind me the fire isn't gulf mean southern california right now where it's seventy thousand acres two hundred fifty thousand people have been evacuated and the fire is chewing up drive

brush it's. totally dry and everything everything in its path is being charred resources right now for the firefighters are being warned very very thin we actually have some agencies from outside of southern california coming in to help out and and the winds have calmed a bit yesterday they were at about sixty five to seventy miles an hour right now they're at fifty to sixty miles an hour which is just pushing it towards the coast and then south towards a very densely populated area there is no relief in sight right now tomorrow morning the winds are expected to pick back up to about seventy miles an hour. jason other any signs that california firefighters are any closer to getting these bases and to control. absolutely not right now we're at zero percent containment and people are just hoping for the best this morning earlier it was very cold out so that helped a little bit but we are still it's zero percent containment and again these

resources are spread extremely extremely thin or watching houses go up in flames in seconds and there's no way to get up in these very hilly areas these very hilly terrain multimillion dollar homes going up in flames in a matter of two to three seconds and there's nothing that firefighters can do they do have some strike teams that are set up in certain areas to try and prevent homes from going up in flames but it really is kind of one of those things where mother nature needs to help out and we're not getting that relief j.c. is describing an incredibly at disturbing picture there but how a california is reacting to president donald trump essentially accusing the state government of mechanics and fire management. it really depends on who you ask if you asked certain people they say that's right you know the president is right but if you ask another certain sector of the population here in southern california they disagree with the president that the forest needs to grow the forest needs to

do its thing and in it bringing in heavy equipment to clear some of the brush is affecting the nature so it really depends on who you ask janice jason capital in your reporting for us in los angeles thank you thank you. and just a reminder of the top story we're following for you i'm going to machall and french presidential mangal khan has marked one hundred. once described as the war to end all wars they unveiled a. way. that ended the. times. you can always get the news on the. google play. that will give you a. push notifications for any breaking news.

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